HGSA (Home Garden Seed Association) – Hart Seed is a founding member of the Home Garden Seed Association which is a member-driven organization of companies in the garden seed trade. Their goal is to promote gardening from seed as the easy, economical and rewarding method to grow that it is.
ASA (Atlantic Seed Association) – Hart Seed is also a founding member of the ASA, an organization established in 1952 to address the issues of seedsmen throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. Companies in this association represent the lawn seed, garden seed and field seed industries.
ASTA (American Seed Trade Association) – Their mission is to be an effective voice of action in all matters concerning the development, marketing, and movement of seed, associated products and services throughout the world.
Connecticut Green Industries – Comprised of over 3,000 companies including florists, greenhouses, garden centers, nurseries, landscapers and more who are responsible for employing 48,000 professionals with $1.1 billion in annual sales all over Connecticut. Connecticut Green Industries is further broken down into 3 associations, the CFA (Connecticut Florists Association), the CGGA (Connecticut Greenhouse Growers Association), and the CNLA (Connecticut Nursery & Landscape Association).
Connecticut Green Industries: www.flowersplantsinct.com
CFA: www.connecticutflorist.com
CGGA: flowersplantsinct.com/cgga_index.htm
CNLA: flowersplantsinct.com/cnla_index.htm
Connecticut Flower Show – It’s summer in the middle of winter when the Connecticut Convention Center is transformed every February into a breathtaking event for floral and garden enthusiasts.
RINLA (Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association) – RINLA’s green industry members include nurseries, landscape contractors, arborists, irrigation specialists, masons, garden centers, turf farms, landscape architects, landscape designers, vegetable growers, cut flower growers, suppliers and allied businesses. RINLA members are professionals who take pride in their work and uphold the highest standards in horticulture, environmental practices, agriculture and the landscape business.
NENA (New England Nursery Association) – The New England Nursery Association is dedicated to providing nursery professionals with the most current and highest quality information. Since 1912, NENA has worked to benefit those in the business of growing and selling green goods.
www.newenglandnurseryassociation.org
NE GROWS Trade Show – The Northeast’s leading horticulture trade and one of the largest, most popular horticultural and green industry events in North America. New England Grows connects 13,000+ green industry professionals with the brightest horticultural ideas, hottest selling plants, latest green industry technology, and best outdoor equipment at its 1,100+ booth horticulture trade show.
OFA (Ohio Florists’ Association) – The Association of Horticulture Professionals is the leading horticulture educational association in the United States. It is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization with a mission to support and advance professional horticulture. Industry segments served include garden centers, greenhouses, nurseries, landscapers, florists, interior plantscapers, emerging professionals, and allied trade.
MANTS (Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show) – Now in its fourth decade, MANTS® is the premier, private green industry marketplace for finding plants and nursery stock, landscape and garden items, heavy and light duty equipment, tools, furniture and hundreds of other allied industry products. Companies exhibit and industry members attend because they know that MANTS® is the place to buy, shop, meet, see, be and be seen every January. MANTS® is one of the largest private trade shows serving the Horticulture Industry which is why industry members say that MANTS® means business!
PANTS (Penn Atlantic Nursery Trade Show) – PANTS is the biggest summer event for retail garden center owners, nursery growers, and landscaping professionals from Massachusetts to Virginia and is now expanding to be bigger than ever.
Wethersfield Chamber of Commerce – The Mission of the Wethersfield Chamber of Commerce is to represent its members through active involvement on issues, projects and service that will improve the economic environment and provide greater business opportunities.
WBCA (Wethersfield Business and Civic Association)